Afternoon Quotes - Page 24

• But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

  C. S. Lewis

  Autumn, Tree, Remember

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• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.

  Colin Fletcher

  Exercise, Men, Simplicity

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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• During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Doctors, Years, Numbers

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• This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Morning, Writing, Hell

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• Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

  Thomas Harris

  Morning, Home, Writing

  "Will Hannibal the Cannibal eat Hollywood?" by Nikki Finke, www.cnn.com. June 4, 1999.

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• There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

  Saul Bellow

  Passion, Heart, Voice

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• A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Golf, Men

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

  Paz Vega

  Husband, Son, Littles

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• It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

  Sherman Austin

  Sister, Home, Naps

  Interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun, www.counterpunch.org. August 14, 2003.

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• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer, Struggle, Cricket Match

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• We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

  John Buford

  Enemy, Entering, Towns

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• The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Prayer, Sunset

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• And I hope that you die
  And your death'll come soon
  I will follow your casket
  In the pale afternoon
  And I'll watch while you're lowered
  Down to your deathbed
  And I'll stand o'er your grave
  'Til I'm sure that you're dead

  Bob Dylan

  Hatred, Watches, Graves

  Song: Masters of War

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• Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.

  Perry Como

  Children, Home, Kids

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• If the afternoon had been blue,
  there might have been less desire.

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

  Blue, Desire, Might

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Thomas Colchie, Mark Strand (1986). “Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems”, New York : Random House

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• Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

  John Gresham Machen

  Class, Evil, Invention

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• And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

  Ralph Ellison

  Winter, Ice, Melting

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.271, Vintage

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• When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

  James Keller

  Perseverance, Women, Athlete

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• Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

  Edward Abbey

  Beer, Sunday, Said

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Summer, Mother, Husband

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.16, Penguin

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• There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Running, Morning, Sleep

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• I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. Fortunately I am able to work from my home and can answer my e-mails in the morning, play tennis or kitesurf in the afternoon to keep fit and have meetings or phone calls in between.

  Richard Branson

  Morning, Home, Phones

  "The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

  Margaret Forster

  Morning, Writing, Lovely

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• What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?

  Gordon McLendon

  Summer, July, People

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